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EchoStar

Englewood, Colorado, USA

Total Offices: 4

14,500 Total Employees

Year Founded: 1980

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What It's Like to Work at EchoStar

Updated on December 11, 2025

EchoStar Employee Perspectives

What first attracted you to EchoStar? When did you know it was the right place for you and your career?

My start with EchoStar began with Blockbuster. I was an operations support manager in the field on the East Coast. DISH purchased Blockbuster, which brought me into the family. After Blockbuster closed their stores, I applied to work at the DISH corporate office. I have worked on the sales operations team for my entire career with DISH. The culture on this team is amazing!

Share one exciting challenge or project you are working on right now. What impact will this have on the business?

My team is reviewing everything that we do to ensure that we are being as efficient as possible. We have already started to discuss ways we can improve as a team in 2025. The partner management team works hard to deliver exceptional work and service. They are working on several enhancements to the partner administration tool that they manage. These enhancements will allow not only my teams to be even more efficient, but also other teams across the business.

In addition, the risk, audit and compliance team has already worked to enhance our reports and audits. This team has already had some great achievements and progress in 2024. I look forward to seeing everything they will do in 2025.

If your company culture was a car, what would it be, and why?

A 2025 Mercedes-Benz CLE 450. It would definitely need the convertible top. There are a few reasons that I would pick this car. The first being that my grandmother’s name was Mercedes. As a child, she always told me to have pride, work hard and have a winning attitude. This is a reflection of the core values at DISH — curiosity, pride, adventure and winning.

In addition, I believe that we need to work hard and also have time for some fun. It would be great to support our team wins by taking a drive in the car with the convertible top down. Colorado is beautiful and we should enjoy the scenery. I have a great team! We are small but mighty!

Mary McKnight, General Manager of Risk, Audit, Compliance and PMT

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EchoStar Employee Reviews

What we’re building at DISH Wireless is extraordinary and will forever change the telecom industry. To be a part of history, and work alongside the most amazing and supportive people, is thrilling. There’s endless opportunity to grow here.

Lynea, NE Regional Program Operations

I am inspired to learn about the broad range of capabilities each of our experts brings to the table, from complex, high-frequency circuit design to the analysis and characterization of parabolic antennas.

James , Senior Manager, RF/OEM Engineering

Manufacturing is well known for being a male-dominated industry, but there are a lot of women leaders in manufacturing at DISH. It gives hope to women like me – who want to rise up within the ranks – that it is possible with hard work and dedication.

Ashante, Instructional Designer

At our DISH Grand Central location, we strive to uphold a strong culture! We have a Bureau of Serious fun that consists of a group of people who plan and host potlucks, trivia challenges, and a variety of monthly events. We even started a walking club that takes place on Friday afternoon during the lunch hour!

Ali, Experience Manager, DISH Grand Central

Throughout my 7 years with DISH, I have taken advantage of DISH’s #1 benefit: Opportunity. Starting my career in Indirect Sales and then transitioning into HR Recruiting has led me to my passion for Recruitment Operations where I continue to grow my expertise and make a difference in people’s lives.

Whitney, Recruiting Operations Manager

One exciting new project we are working on is the blockchain initiative that we are building. We are moving way beyond just cryptocurrency. The blockchain capabilities we are building will create entirely new business models and services that enable fast, on-the-fly, secure, and verifiable access to our spectrum.

William, Senior IT Manager

We promote an empowered team product structure, meaning we don't give our team a product to build. We give them a problem to solve. How they choose to solve that problem is derived from discovery, talking to customers, and understanding how to build a solution that will work for the customer. It's not about pushing out feature after feature.

Seth, SVP, Sling Product and Operations

At DISH, we are building something that has never been built before, to be part of history and change the way humans and things connect. I wanted to lead teams that push themselves and each other to be better every day. DISH is going to change communications, not just for subscribers but for businesses across the nation.

Mac, VP, Head of Network Engineering